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*** When Marty asks why George was not at school, the day following his encounter with "Darth Vader", George explains that he overslept. An extended version of the "Darth Vader" scene shows that Marty chloroformed George after their conversation. As he leaves, he comments to Doc that the chloroform should hold George over and he hopes he didn't overdo it. The line about George oversleeping was meant to be the payoff to the exchange, as Marty did in fact overdo it.

*** When Marty asks why George was not at school, the day following his encounter with "Darth Vader", George explains that he overslept. An extended version of the "Darth Vader" scene shows that Marty chloroformed George after their conversation and commented to Doc that he hopes he didn't overdo it. This is likely the reason why George overslept, as Marty did in fact overdo it.

* ''Anime/ChargemanKen'': The main reason Ken is so bloodthirsty towards the Juralians is because he's an {{expy}} of Knack Production's prior protagonist, Kantaro of ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}''. Kantaro hated the Blaster alien race for killing his mother as well as repeatedly attacking earth, and swore to kill them all as revenge. His father Dr. Hoshi often told him to calm down and assured him there were good Blasters amongst the bad ones. But Ken has no such motive, so this makes him come across as needlessly brutal towards his enemies, which isn't helped by the episodes being too short (5-10 minutes runtime) to explore his backstory.

%%%%* The Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub of ''Anime/SonicX'', in their usual desperation to NeverSayDie, rewrites the fates of Maria and the rest of the ARK science team to have them simply being detained rather than [[HeKnowsTooMuch murdered to cover up Gerald Robotnik's illegal research]]. They did not, however, bother to similarly rewrite the sequence where we meet the man who killed Maria, and as a result, said character is still portrayed as a broken, guilt-ridden ShellShockedVeteran despite having no longer done anything especially evil or traumatic, making him look like a total loser who breaks down sobbing over the memory of [[PokeThePoodle escorting a young girl off a space station]] (in the original, he suffers from PTSD from the memory of ''gunning her down'' on his commander's orders and watching the rest of the science team being killed by his comrades).

** Hill Top Zone in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' has near-identical graphics to Emerald Hill Zone, and has a robotic dinosaur enemy. This is a remnant of the prototype storyline for the game, which would've involved time travel. Hill Top would've been the "past" version of Emerald Hill.

* ''Octane'' was originally going to feature vampires as the antagonists, but this aspect was greatly toned down in subsequent rewrites, with the finished product instead having the protagonists menaced by a CreepyCult. Despite this, the cult is still shown kidnapping car accident victims in order to drink their blood, a holdover from the initial premise

* ''Anime/ChargemanKen'': The main reason Ken is so bloodthirsty towards the Juralians is because he's an {{expy}} of Knack Production's prior protagonist, Kantaro of ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}''. Kantaro hated the Blaster alien race for killing his mother as well as repeatedly attacking earth, and swore to kill them all as revenge. His father Dr. Hoshi often told him to calm down and assured him there were good Blasters amongst the bad ones. But Ken has no such motive, not helped by the episodes being too short (5-10 minutes runtime) to explore his backstory.

*** The first is the family going to see ''{{Film/ET}}'' in cinemas - and the film having a recurring significance for them (Johnny nearly bankrupts everyone getting an ET doll from a carnival, another character dying pretends he's going to his home planet like ET). The filmmakers lucked out when ''ET'' was re-released in 2002 to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': When Sully and Mike go back to Monsters Inc headquarters while disguising Boo, one of the CDA officers show Sully's burned gym bag that was left the previous night at Harryhausen's. This is a leftover from the original idea that the CDA blew up the restaurant to decontaminate, but after [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11,]] [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents it was changed]] to a plasma dome covering the building.

* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': The final episode of series 13 had a task that required Ardal and Chris to write and perform a song. The song they come up with references numerous tasks from earlier in the series... including, as Chris notes afterwards, ones that didn't actually get included in the show, making some parts of the song (like all the references to aubergines) completely nonsensical.

** Gregs stolen trousers, which Mark Watson submitted as his prize task in episode 5 of Series 5, were actually from a cut challenge where contestants had to make an outlandish prediction and then make it come true. Mark predicted he'd steal from The Taskmaster and had Ed Gambol steal Greg's trousers, and didn't want them to go to waste.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' has "To Another Shore", which was written as an ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} episode initially, but had to change things up due to WB planning a TV series based on him at the time (WB had a policy of not featuring the same characters on multiple shows). They changed it to ComicBook/WonderWoman, due to the two having relatively close powersets and the plot hinging on them being a representative of a fantastical nation. Despite this, it's still pretty darn obvious that it was an Aquaman episode: most of the action takes place by the water, Wonder Woman is unusually aggressive and isolationist, and most importantly, there's a clear CaptainErsatz of Aquaman's main archnemesis Black Manta, going by Devil Ray, who spends most of the episode fighting with her.

* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': Velma and Shaggy were originally intended to be brother and sister. It's why Velma has Shaggy's cough medicine with her in "What a Night for a Knight" and why Shaggy is the one carrying Velma's spare glasses in "A Decoy for a Dognapper".

* WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce: In the episode [[Recap/AquaTeenHungerForceS9E5TheGraniteFamily The Granite Family]], Shake tries to get a reboot of a [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]] parody. This episode was made to parody the announcement of a Creator/SethMacFarlane reboot of The Flintstones, but the reboot entered DevelopmentHell and never happened, rendering the episode borderline incomprehensible when watching it today.

* Music/TheStreets: On the ConceptAlbum ''A Grand Don't Come For Free'', the lyrics to "Such A Twat" mention "that incident with the ice cream" - this was an intended to callback to "Soaked By The Ale", a CutSong turned BSide, which would have come directly before "Such A Twat" and involved the fictionalized Mike Skinner angering his friends by drunkenly trying to shoplift ice cream.